Table of Contents
- 1 What is space Yi-Fu Tuan?
- 2 Who was the famous ancient geographer?
- 3 Which one of the following comes closest in meaning to the author’s understanding of Topophilia?
- 4 What did Alexander von Humboldt discover?
- 5 What is Topophobia the fear of?
- 6 Which of the following best captures the meaning of the statement topophilia is difficult?
What is space Yi-Fu Tuan?
The Perspective of Experience Eminent geographer Yi-Fu Tuan considers the ways in which people feel and think about space, how they form attachments to home, neighborhood, and nation, and how feelings about space and place are affected by the sense of time.
Who was the famous ancient geographer?
Eratosthenes. The first spot has to go to the man who coined the term geography, Eratosthenes (c. 275–194 BC). He created one of the earliest maps of the known world between 276-195 BC, but his greatest contribution was the concept of latitude and longitude.
Patriotism, literally meaning the love of one’s terra patria or homeland”. Despite a negative tone, the author says that one form of topophilia is patriotism. Even though not wholesome, it comes “closest” to the author’s understanding of topophilia among the given options. Hence B is correct.
What did Yi-Fu Tuan do?
Yi-Fu Tuan (Traditional Chinese: 段義孚, born December 5, 1930) is a Chinese-American geographer. He is one of the key figures in human geography and arguably the most important originator of humanistic geography.
What is Relphs theory?
Relph begins Place and Placelessness with a review of space and its relationship to place. He. argues that space is not a void or an isometric plane or a kind of container that holds places. Instead, he contends that, to study the relationship of space to a more experientially-based.
What did Alexander von Humboldt discover?
Humboldt and Bonpland discovered and mapped the Casiquiare Canal, the only natural canal in the world that connects two major rivers (the Orinoco River and the Negro River, a tributary of the Amazon).
What is Topophobia the fear of?
Accepting the existence of that peculiar term “topophilia”, we should, however, be ready to accept its antonym, ‘topophobia’, defined by the Free Online Dictionary as “the fear of certain places or situations”.
Which of the following best captures the meaning of the statement topophilia is difficult?
Which one of the following best captures the meaning of the statement, “Topophilia is difficult to design for and impossible to quantify . . .”? The deep anomie of modern urbanisation led to new urbanism’s intricate sense of place. Architects have to objectively quantify spaces and hence cannot be topophilic.